Christopher Browne wrote: > I'm redoing some of my .rc files, and was wondering if there's a > common idiom for "add that path to PATH, if it's missing"? I think the idiom is to use a unique array. That is an array that will keep only the first occurrence of each (possibly duplicate) value. typeset -U path path=($HOME/bin /opt/bin /other/path $path) See zshbuiltins man page for more on typeset. -- John Eikenberry [jae@xxxxxxxx - http://zhar.net] [PGP public key @ http://zhar.net/jae_at_zhar_net.gpg] ______________________________________________________________ "Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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